The Coast Yuki were a sedentary hunter/
gatherer tribe. They occupied the coast from Cleone to about Rockport
and inland to the ridges before the Eel River. The tribe was destroyed
by gold rush era miners and settlers. There may be a few descendants
in the area of Round Valley.

Aboriginal
Locations

29 villages

Present Locations

Extinct as a culture

Year

History

1850

Gold rush,
miners and settlers encroached into territory

1862

Squatters took
over 80% of Round Valley Reservation killing many of tribe